FS#12294 - [xf86-video-intel] Google Earth can't use software acceleration on xorg 1.5

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Bráulio Barros de Oliveira (brauliobo) - Sunday, 30 November 2008, 21:25 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Sunday, 21 June 2009, 08:45 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Google earth display an warning that it could no enable hardware acceleration and will use software accel. instead.
Of course, it statys terribly slow.

The bug started with the upgrade to xorg 1.5.3

google-earth 4.3.7284.3916-2 from yaourt running with dchroot -d (chroot 32 bit install into Arch64
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Sunday, 21 June 2009, 08:45 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  fixed with kernel 2.6.30-2 (kms enabled)
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 30 November 2008, 21:50 GMT
Please give some more information
- videocard/chip
- driver
- Xorg.0.log
- xorg.conf in case you use it
- glxinfo output
Comment by Bráulio Barros de Oliveira (brauliobo) - Sunday, 30 November 2008, 21:55 GMT
driver: intel
chip: intel g965 on a dell xps m1330
   xorg.conf (2.3 KiB)
   Xorg.0.log (25.4 KiB)
   glxinfo (6.9 KiB)
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 30 November 2008, 22:18 GMT
What is the exact warning you get, could you copy&paste it here?
Comment by Bráulio Barros de Oliveira (brauliobo) - Sunday, 30 November 2008, 23:18 GMT
sure. see screenshot
   screenshot2.png (22.3 KiB)
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 11 April 2009, 16:15 GMT
What's the status with current xf86-video-intel and/or xf86-video-intel-legacy?
Comment by Bráulio Barros de Oliveira (brauliobo) - Sunday, 12 April 2009, 00:46 GMT
well, still the same. i'm using the current intel drivers and other packages.
Comment by Bráulio Barros de Oliveira (brauliobo) - Tuesday, 09 June 2009, 10:36 GMT
sorry, i'm bugged. in the chroot the package intel-dri wasn't installed. installing it fixed the problem.

still, google earth is unusable. when getting near to a place a blue fog appears making impossible to see anything. this also happens with google earth inside a virtualbox windows guest with opengl enabled.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 09 June 2009, 19:46 GMT
have you reported the bug upstream?
Comment by Bráulio Barros de Oliveira (brauliobo) - Tuesday, 09 June 2009, 19:48 GMT
no, should i report it to intel-gfx mailing list?
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 11 June 2009, 09:06 GMT
Actually I meant Google :), but intel-gfx may be fine too.
BTW, do you have the same issue on some other distro with the latest xorg and intel drivers?
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 11 June 2009, 09:09 GMT
It seems kernel 2.6.30 will fix most issues with intel and make google earth usable again.
Comment by Bráulio Barros de Oliveira (brauliobo) - Thursday, 11 June 2009, 20:40 GMT
might be that. i`m using kms and dri2 with 2.6.29
Comment by Bráulio Barros de Oliveira (brauliobo) - Friday, 19 June 2009, 20:22 GMT
fixed with kernel 2.6.30-2 (kms enabled)

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